Converted Hammond L100 to Church VPO

An overview of the Ranks and capabilities of a Virtual Pipe organ running on a MIDI converted Hammond L100

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Music

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• Virtual
• Pipe
• Organ
• MyOrgan

[ggoodesa]

I'm running MyOrgan through WINE/wineasio on Puppy Linux using various free Hauptwerk v1 sample sets into a Stereo speaker system. I have added gverb through Jack rack. It's all running on a PIII500Mhz with 512Meg ram.

[ggoodesa]

So, instead of scraping this non-working Hammond or purchasing a new Electronic Organ (Allan..R100 000 for the smallest on the market) I spend R500 (because I had the computer sitting in the garage) and turn it into a beautifully sounding virtual pipe organ that sounds more like a Classical Pipe Organ than most MIDI organs. The point? Where I live this sounds better than it did before, costs less than anything else on the market, and re-used/recycled material so did less environmental damage.

[ggoodesa]

Hmmm... let's see if I get what you're saying... the case looks better than the organ sounds? Well, South African Churches generally prefer the sound of the 'Classical' Pipe Organ to the Hammond electronic, but can't afford Pipe Organs so have 'lived' with the Hammonds as they were affordable. Now many of the Hammonds are wearing out and it is too expensive to maintain them.

[Hammondlover2]

Do you still have the drawbars? Have you thought of making the ranks volume adjustable?

[ZmajSnoshaj]

Nice L you've got there ;)

[himtroy]

It's nice work, but really....it seems kind of pointless, in the end you still have a midi organ, which isn't that great. It just still has the badass case, but not the tone.

[taff1987]

Very interesting video. I am about to embark upon a similar project with a 3 manual theatre style console; what sound card are you using - i.e. Hauptwerk/Milan or ? Also, how have you configured the speaker outputs, i.e. have you separated bass and/or left & right channels?